Beecroft

Beecroft is a former tenement farmhouse, now a private house, likely built in the late 17th century or early 18th century, but remodeled in the 19th century with some 20th-century alterations. The building features painted rendered stone rubble and cob, with an asbestos slate roof that replaced thatch in 1958. The roof is hipped at the front end and gable-ended at the rear. There are rendered stacks at the rear gable end and a rear lateral stack with offsets heating the lower end.

The house is positioned at right angles to East Street at the junction with Langley Lane and has a two-room and through-passage plan. The lower end, heated by the rear lateral stack on the right, was probably originally the parlour, while the kitchen is on the left. The principal entrance is on the left side facing Langley Lane. Originally, a staircase was located in the rear right-hand corner of the lower end room, but it was removed in the 20th century, and access was made through to a single-storey gable-ended wing attached to the rear of the lower end, which was formerly an outbuilding and is now part of the dwelling. There is a second winder staircase in the front right-hand corner of the kitchen, and a single-storey gable-ended dairy is attached to the upper end beyond the kitchen.

The exterior is two storeys high, featuring a single 20th-century four-light casement window on each floor at the front end. To the right of the four-panelled door, which has the upper two panels glazed, there is a small four-paned sash window. On the right side, there is a 19th-century three-light casement window with three panes per light on the ground floor. Inside, there is 19th-century dado panelling throughout, and a 20th-century grate that possibly conceals the original fireplace in the lower end. A 19th-century ledged plank door leads to the rear of the through-passage. The roof contains three trusses, probably from the late 18th century, with straight principals, X apexes, and pegged, lapped collars.